Health Curriculum

Topics of Study:

• Nutrition and Physical Activity
• Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
• Safety
• Social and Emotional Health
• Personal Health and Wellness
• HIV Prevention
• Sexuality Education

Content Standards:

• Application of Core Concepts
  • Apply core concepts to health promotion and disease prevention to personal, family and community health issues.
• Access Information
  • Develop resources for accessing valid health information and appropriate health promoting products and services.
• Health Behaviors
  • Examples of practicing health enhancing behaviors and reducing health risks.
• Influences
  • Analyze the influence of cultural beliefs, media and technology on health topics.
• Goal Setting
  • Use goal setting to enhance health.
• Decision Making
  • Show how decision-making skills enhance health.
• Social Skills
  • Demonstrate effective interpersonal communication and other social skills which enhance health.
• Advocacy
  • Demonstrate advocacy skills for enhanced personal, family and community health.

• Participate in development of collaborative media sources that incorporate each content standard within each topic of study.
  • Examples: blog, resource websites, a resource wiki, PSA in print or video form, print materials, podcast, interviews, etc...
• Maintain an individual on-line journal showing individual growth and reflection within each topic of study.
  • A blog that will be included on the blog-roll at Elective Chatter. (blogs may be public or private to class view only)